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The Cybertruck's failure is now complete

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Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks due to stuck accelerator pedal issue

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Imagine you're driving down the road in your brand new Tesla Cybertruck, and suddenly, the vehicle...
Imagine you're driving down the road in your brand new Tesla Cybertruck, and suddenly, the vehicle won't stop accelerating.For some Cybertruck customers, this frightening scenario became a reality because of an accelerator pedal cover that would slide up and become lodged in the vehicle's interior trim. The cover wo...
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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

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X's AI chatbot Grok made up a fake trending headline about Iran attacking Israel

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NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere

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The fastest spacecraft in our solar system has captured wild footage inside the sun's atmosphere.NASA's Parker...
The fastest spacecraft in our solar system has captured wild footage inside the sun's atmosphere.NASA's Parker Solar Probe — a craft flying much closer to the sun than any previous mission — witnessed massive "vortex-like structures" in our star's outer atmosphere, called the corona. You can see the unprecedented vi...
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Discord obliterated a YouTube view count record. It may have been an accident

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X / Twitter use is down by nearly a quarter since the Musk Era started

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An uptick in bots, a rise in hate speech, and content moderation policies that are unevenly...
An uptick in bots, a rise in hate speech, and content moderation policies that are unevenly applied to the social media platform's users.These are just some of the issues that have plagued X, formerly known as Twitter, since Elon Musk acquired the company back in October 2022.Now, roughly a year and a half later, it...
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Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched

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A new security vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's Mac and MacBook computers – and the...
A new security vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's Mac and MacBook computers – and the worst part is that it's unpatchable.Academic researchers discovered the vulnerability, first reported by Ars Technica, which allows hackers to gain access to secret encryption keys on Apple computers with Apple's new Sili...
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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data

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If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to "put you...
If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to "put you on some kind of list," your concern may be more than warranted.In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and...
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New iOS features you're not getting because you're outside the EU

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Midjourney Bans Prompts with Joe Biden and Donald Trump

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Midjourney, the AI image generator known for creating fake images of Donald Trump's arrest, has banned...
Midjourney, the AI image generator known for creating fake images of Donald Trump's arrest, has banned image prompts that include the name of the presidential hopeful as well as current president Joe Biden. The decision comes as experts and advocates warn about the fear of AI technology being used to influence voter...
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Elon Musk's X has already backed off its new anti-trans hate policy

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X, formerly known as Twitter, has already backed off its new policy that discouraged – but...
X, formerly known as Twitter, has already backed off its new policy that discouraged – but did not prohibit – anti-trans hate and harassment against transgender users on the platform, just days after rolling it out.On Thursday, X updated its "Abuse and Harassment" policy to add a new section called "Use of Prior Nam...
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, wants it to go nonprofit again

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Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it has breached its contract and that...
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it has breached its contract and that it should go open source, and become a non-profit organization again. OpenAI started out as a nonprofit in 2015, with Musk being one of the key investors. But in 2019, it transitioned to a for-profit company, and in 2023, sho...
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Google announced Genie AI can generate platform video games

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Generative AI developers at Google DeepMind have taken on the world's highest grossing entertainment industry by...
Generative AI developers at Google DeepMind have taken on the world's highest grossing entertainment industry by introducing something called "Genie." The new artificial intelligence system from Google researchers can create playable worlds resembling video games from images and text prompts. Announced in a paper Fr...
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Elon Musk is arguing with his own Community Notes on X

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X's Community Notes feature is a fact-checking tool that's supposed to allow contributors to add context...
X's Community Notes feature is a fact-checking tool that's supposed to allow contributors to add context to "potentially misleading posts". But on Sunday, the CEO himself was arguing with it publicly. It started when Elon Musk shared a post moaning about his new laptop, which he said was forcing him to create a Micr...
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Tumblr CEO's public 'meltdown' is mocked, memed by users

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What Was Sora Trained On? Creatives Demand Answers

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> Tech On Thursday, OpenAI once again shook up the AI world with a video generation...
> Tech On Thursday, OpenAI once again shook up the AI world with a video generation model called Sora. The demos showed photorealistic videos with crisp detail and complexity, based off of simple text prompts. A video based on the prompt "Reflections in the window of a train traveling through the Tokyo suburbs" look...
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Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

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Reddit posts might be the next fuel in the AI innovation machine, as the "front page...
Reddit posts might be the next fuel in the AI innovation machine, as the "front page of the internet" reportedly negotiated a content licensing deal to allow its data to be used to train AI models. Ahead of a potential $5 billion IPO debut in March, Bloomberg reported the social media platform had signed a $60 milli...
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The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl

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Health insurers can't rely on AI to decide Medicare coverage

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Patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have more protection from the threat of AI-related bias, according...
Patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have more protection from the threat of AI-related bias, according to new rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency tasked with overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marke...
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Elon Musk's X comes out in favor of pro-censorship law

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Some of the biggest tech companies are being grilled on Wednesday by the US Senate Judiciary...
Some of the biggest tech companies are being grilled on Wednesday by the US Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis."Meta's Mark Zuckerberg along with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Discord CEO Jason Citron, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino a...
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Google Pixel 9 leak reveals 3 big design tweaks. It looks more iPhone-like now

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26B records have been leaked in 'Mother of all Breaches

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A database of 26 billion leaked records has been discovered, in what has been called the...
A database of 26 billion leaked records has been discovered, in what has been called the "Mother of all Breaches." Fortunately, it actually isn't as bad as it sounds.The massive 12-terabyte leak was discovered by cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko, working alongside the team at Cybernews. It isn't clear exactly ...
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TikTok users report that they can no longer log in through Twitter / X

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